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...days, streams of Buddhist pilgrims braving high winds and sub-zero temperatures had made their way along some of the world's tallest mountains in central Kashmir. Most came on foot, some by yak, the more affluent by treacherous day-long Jeep or bus rides. Their destination: Leh, a remote stronghold of the Tibetan culture that had been selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled God-King, for a rare spiritual event...
...Gods" expedition. For amateur astronomers, there are two separate tours to Australia, both led by experts, to see an eclipse in early October. For the mystic-minded, a Meditation tour-80 true believers led by Cleveland-born Guru Alice Christiansen-took off last week for Srinagar in Kashmir, there to spend five weeks aboard houseboats on polluted Dal Lake. Mike Kong of New York City is selling an unwrapped package for nudists titled "Vacations in the Buff" (in the Caribbean), which, according to his office, has been designed to attract "the more sophisticated traveler, anxious to try a new experience...
...very well working hard at their trade. Most days Shashi, for instance, does two eight-hour acting stints on different Bombay lots, often for his brother Raj's production company. On others, he'll hop a plane for Srinagar for a day's shooting in Kashmir, or roar off in his white Mercedes to Pune (formerly Poona) for a locationer. Then he will rush back to Bombay to read the script for Last Train to Pakistan, his next starring vehicle, and perhaps consider offers from abroad...
That sky still frames their work and personae. In Jon's Ahmed and the Old Lady, 80-year-old Leah Harding is traveling in the mountains of Kashmir in 1943. As the headstrong woman explores higher and higher-above the last town, above the encampments of the nomadic Gujar tribe, above the tree line -the air becomes cleaner and thinner and her life more elemental. The solitude and longed-for "power of seeing, really seeing" pull her onward. Leah's servant, Ahmed, shares her drive, but he is eager only to leave behind a life of error. Despite...
Although her mandate had seemed assured, Mrs. Gandhi apparently decided that she could not afford to take any chances. Free parliamentary elections in 1976 might well have triggered state elections in Kashmir and Tamil Nadu -two states where opposition forces remain strong. Moreover, in order to hold elections, Mrs. Gandhi would presumably have felt obliged to lift the state of emergency, if only to give a semblance of a free campaign. That she was not prepared to do. If the emergency were lifted, she told the convention, neither her 20-point social and economic program nor any other program could...